Chronographiai

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...in Palestine, where he served as prefect. He was named regional ambassador to Rome about 222, when he became a protégé of the emperor Severus Alexander. Africanus’ greatest work was
Chronographiai(221), a five-volume treatise on sacred and profane history from the Creation (which he placed at 5499
bc) to
ad 221. Relying on the Bible as the basis of his calculations, he...